..The purpose of this analysis was to: 1) detect international neighborhood typologies based on participants' response patterns to an environment survey and 2) to estimate associations between neighborhood environment patterns and PA...

Interactive effects of built environment and psychosocial attributes on physical activity: a test of ecological models

Ding DingDepartment of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103, USAAnn Behav Med 44:365-74. 2012

..The principle of cross-level interactions of influence on behavior in ecological models is seldom studied...

Correlates of change in adults' television viewing time: a four-year follow-up study

Community food environment, home food environment, and fruit and vegetable intake of children and adolescents

Ding DingGraduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92103, USAJ Nutr Educ Behav 44:634-8. 2012

..To determine (1) reliability of new food environment measures; (2) association between home food environment and fruit and vegetable (FV) intake; and (3) association between community and home food environment...

Dori RosenbergJoint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University and University of California, 3900 5th Avenue, Suite 310, San Diego, CA 92103, USAPrev Med 49:213-8. 2009

..To examine the psychometric properties of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale-Youth (NEWS-Y) and explore its associations with context-specific and overall physical activity (PA) among youth...